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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Steve Coogan takes on a different guise in each of these self-contained chilling tales From the grisly results of a ballroom dancer’s encounter with a giant pair of scissors to the depths of vampiric lust & the misadventures of a 19th Century medical pioneer each tale is introduced by the enigmatic Dr Terrible & features well known performers from TV & cinema Appointment with Dr Terrible is an opportunity to see Steve Coogan talking about his art ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Tom Hollander (Rev A Poet In New York Pirates of the Caribbean) stars as Dr Thomas Thorne who lives in the village of Greshamsbury in Barsetshire with his young niece Mary (Stefanie Martini) a girl blessed with every gift except money Mary Thorne has grown up alongside the Gresham family whose house Greshamsbury Park & status dominate the county However Francis Gresham Senior (Richard Mc Cabe) has frittered away the family fortune & now his wife Lady Arabella Gresham played by Rebecca Front (Humans Lewis The Thick of It) their daughters Augusta (Gwyneth Keyworth) & Beatrice (Nell Barlow) & their handsome brother Frank (Harry Richardson) face losing their home When the terrifying Lady Arabella Gresham discovers that her darling son Frank has fallen in love with Dr Thorne’s penniless niece she is horrified Her husband Gresham is only being kept afloat by very favourable loans that Dr Thorne has secured from a railway millionaire Sir Roger Scatcherd played by Ian Mc Shane (Ray Donovan Pirates of the Caribbean The Pillars of the Earth) However Sir Roger is drinking himself into an early grave & the family’s financial future lies with his unreliable son Louis Scatcherd (Edward Franklin) Lady Arabella believes it is her son’s duty to make a rich marriage to save the family estate & launches a campaign to secure her son an heiress for a bride aided by her scheming sister in law the very grand Countess De Courcy (Phoebe Nicholls) & her conniving niece Alexandrina De Courcy (Kate O’ Flynn) Their target is wealthy American heiress Miss Martha Dunstable (Alison Brie) ...

With an Introduction by Joanna Trollope Trollope's delightful novel recounts the fortunes of Doctor Thorne an upright & principled country doctor & his niece Mary She falls in love with Frank Gresham heir to the heavily mortgaged Greshambury estate but he is constrained in his choices by the need to marry well so that he can restore the family fortunes The vicissitudes of Mary & Frank's courtship are lovingly detailed with all the wit & satire that show Trollope at his finest In this social comedy full of snobbery hypocrisy & self-seeking we meet characters from the city & cathedral of Barchester & are introduced to the grandiloquent de Courcy family whose pretensions mark its members among the author's most felicitous creations as well as the down-to-earth heiress Miss Dunstable & the deplorable Sir Roger Scatcherd ...

Son of a bankrupt landowner Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne despite her illegitimacy & apparent poverty Frank's ambitious mother & haughty aunt are set against the match however & push him to save the family's mortgaged estate by making a good marriage to a wealthy heiress Only Mary's loving uncle Dr Thorne knows the secret of her birth & the fortune she is to inherit that will make her socially acceptable in the eyes of Frank's family
- but the high-principled doctor believes she should be accepted on her own terms A telling examination of the relationship between society money & morality Dr Thorne (1858) is enduringly popular for Trollope's affectionate depiction of rural English life & his deceptively simple portrayal of human nature
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Bionic Woman & Merlin star Michelle Ryan plays the mysterious Lady Christina de Souza who joins the Doctor on a bus-trip which takes a very unexpected detour into danger British comedy star Lee Evans also joins the cast playing a character called Malcolm whose life becomes connected to the Doctor&s under extraordinary circumstances & Noma Dumezweni returns as Captain Erisa Magambo
- last seen helping Rose & Donna save the world in Turn Left Planet of the Dead is the first of four Doctor Who Specials which will air in 2009 Written by Russell T Davies & Gareth Roberts the episode will be screened on BBC One in Spring 2009
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Lured to Earth by an alien distress signal in the Tardis the Doctor & companion Peri finds themselves in London 1985 The pair inadvertently stumbles upon a robbery conducted through the city&s sewage system & perpetrated by ex-Dalek agent Lytton ...

The sci-fi series dips its toe into Agatha Christie waters when the Doctor (Peter Davison) arrives in 1920s England & becomes embroiled in a murder mystery When the TARDIS arrives at Cranleigh Halt railway station on a summer afternoon in 1925 the Doctor & his pals are surprised to be met by a chauffeur (Timothy Block) & whisked off to a cricket match Lord Cranleigh (Michael Cochrane) has assumed that the Doctor has come from Guy&s Hospital for the charity event to be held later that night in aid of a sick kids& hospital There then follows a masked ball a case of mistaken identity & mysterious murderous goings on in this two-part homage to the golden age of English whodunnits ...

A brand new boxset of four adventures featuring monsters from the new series of Doctor Who! Night of the Vashta Nerada by John Dorney Funworld was set to be the happiest planet in the galaxy A planet of joy of euphoria of laughter & delight Except construction was marred by reports of a predator & then a few days before opening all communication ceased Owner Georgia Donnelly is desperate to open the resort & has hired Amanda Steele's crew to find out what happened on the planet They're the best But even they might not be up to the task Joined by the Doctor & being picked off one by one they slowly start to realise that something terrifying lurks in the shadows Empire of the Racnoss by Scott Handcock When a distress call rips the TARDIS from the Vortex dragging it back through time it arrives in the midst of a conflict between Gallifrey & an ancient foe The Doctor as ever wants to help but in returning a wounded combatant home he becomes further & further entangled in a web of deceit & recrimination A web spun by an eight-legged Empress & her minions The Empire of the Racnoss is at war & wherever he stands the Doctor is on the wrong side The Carrionite Curse by Simon Guerrier Katy Bell returns to her Midlands home to find strange goings-on at the buskers fair A witch trial in the 1980s A bonfire ready to be lit Luckily a colourful visitor is already investigating & the local vicar Katy's dad is versed in tales of the macabre Terrifying forces are on the loose & the town hall holds a secret There is black magic in the Black Country & the Doctor has the name of his enemy on the tip of his tongue Something wicked this way comes Day of the Vashta Nerada by Matt Fitton As the Time War rages Cardinal Ollistra of Gallifrey seeks to create ever more dangerous weapons to deploy against the enemy When the Doctor stumbles across Synthesis Station he discovers that the Time Lords have sponsored a project to weaponise already-lethal creatures But in doing so Eva Morrison & her team have unwittingly used a colony of Vashta Nerada with a very unfortunate history of humanoid contact The Doctor finds himself leading a desperate race for survival in which the shadows may be the least of their worries Cast Tom Baker (The Doctor) Peter Davison (The Doctor) Colin Baker (The Doctor) Paul Mc Gann (The Doctor) Adjoa Adhoh (Racnoss Empress) Nigel Planer (Old Racnoss Emperor Herrax) Andrew French (Racnoss Consort) Lisa Kay (Alayna) Pam Ferris (Amanda Steele) Lorelei King (Georgia Donnelly) Emma Lowndes (Phelan) Matt Devitt (Bennetto) Jacqueline Pearce (Ollistra) Jan Ravens (Dr Eva Morrison) Himesh Patel (Biotech Dendry) Tim Wallers (Commander Roxita Raldon) Maya Sondhi (Katy Bell) Andree Bernard (Mary Sissinghurst) Adele Anderson (Eileen Nelthorpe) Michael Fenton-Stevens (Rev Douglas Bell) ...

The year is 2164 & the Tardis lands in a deserted London the travellers unaware that the Daleks have conquered Earth ...